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Book Coordinator: Lee Smalley
Meta Coordinator: Ann Boulais
Proof Listener: Ann Boulais

Artwork

Cover: Recreation of design of the first edition book cover.
Inset: Sinclair Lewis, photo from his award for Nobel laureate in Literature 1930.
Insert: Sinclair Lewis, 1914, author unknown. Library of Congress.

Table of Contents

Track     Title           Length Track    Title            Length

1 01 - Chapter 1 0:13 21 21 - Chapter 21 0:36

2 02 - Chapter 2 0:32 22 22 - Chapter 22 0:29

3 03 - Chapter 3 0:33 23 23 - Chapter 23 0:20

4 04 - Chapter 4 0:18 24 24 - Chapter 24 0:33

5 05 - Chapter 5 0:27 25 25 - Chapter 25 0:13

6 06 - Chapter 6 0:50 26 26 - Chapter 26 0:40

7 07 - Chapter 7 0:30 27 27 - Chapter 27 0:38

8 08 - Chapter 8 0:22 28 28 - Chapter 28 0:34

9 09 - Chapter 9 0:37 29 29 - Chapter 29 0:23

10 10 - Chapter 10 0:25 30 30 - Chapter 30 0:26

11 11 - Chapter 11 0:15 31 31 - Chapter 31 0:19

12 12 - Chapter 12 0:31 32 32 - Chapter 32 0:34

13 13 - Chapter 13 0:22 33 33 - Chapter 33 0:31

14 14 - Chapter 14 0:20 34 34 - Chapter 34 0:31

15 15 - Chapter 15 0:31 35 35 - Chapter 35 0:28

16 16 - Chapter 16 0:24 36 36 - Chapter 36 0:22

17 17 - Chapter 17 0:28 37 37 - Chapter 37 0:21

18 18 - Chapter 18 0:17 38 38 - Chapter 38 0:20

19 19 - Chapter 19 0:44 39 39 - Chapter 39 0:38

20 20 - Chapter 20 0:28 40 40 - Chapter 40 0:25

 

Arrowsmith, by Sinclair Lewis, is the story of Martin Arrowsmith, a bright and ambitious young man from the fictional town of Elk Mills, Winnemac, who sets out for New York City to make his name. His passion for science leads him to mentor ship by noted bacteriologist Max Gottlieb and to medical school. His passion for the ladies leads to an engagement with a woman and then to another at the same time, the first of many problematic entanglements. Before long he insults his mentor and is suspended from medical school. Impatient, impulsive, and aggressive, he proceeds through a whirlwind of positions and romantic entanglements, eventually landing at an elite research institute, where he makes an important discovery of a phage which destroys bacteria. This leads him and others from the institute to an island in the Caribbean suffering from an outbreak of bubonic plague. He resists mass deployment of his treatment pending proper testing, until it is too late to save his wife and others from the scourge. He relents, the treatment works, and he is hailed as a hero for saving countless lives.  Arrowsmith, however, feels he has betrayed his principles.

Published in 1925, Arrowsmith won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926. It was written at a time when medical education was undergoing major reforms following a report on the topic to the Carnegie Foundation. It is noted for its extensive treatment of medical training, practice, and ethics, as well as scientific research, fraud, and public health. Although not credited, science writer Paul de Kruif assisted Lewis with the book and received 25% of the royalties.


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EAN - DVD case 0687700170976
EAN - CD jacket 0602581788294
Media MP3 CD
Package DVD Box, CD jacket, paper security sleeve, download
Author Sinclair Lewis (1885 - 1951)
Year 1925
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Read by Multiple readers
Length 18 hours and 44 minutes
Type of Reading Solo

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